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General Strategy

This is all noted in the video above. For those who prefer a text format, this strategy section deals with trash mobs, minibosses, and the four bosses of the instance. You can also see the Dungeon Journal below.

Casters periodically summon a pool of purple smoke on the ground which will silence anyone in it, or anyone who moves into it. These persist until the caster is dead, so CC or focus down casters to avoid excessive pools.

Some melee will periodically use a chain grapple to pull players toward them. This cannot be avoided but alone does negligible damage.

Some melee will periodically cleave with a smoke effect on the ground. This does very high damage, with scaled ilvl of 500 it was taking away about 60% health in build 18379

There are several patrols, particularly in the area prior to Rolltall's bridge. Try to fight mobs where they stood to avoid the patrols, and stay aware - an unmanaged overpull could cause a wipe, especially at a 500 ilvl.

Use CC. While you will be able to muscle through, especially on better geared characters, using CC will make the run smoother.

There are two minibosses, a boar boss and Slagna, a miniature Magmaw.

Boar Boss: He does a Horridon-style double swipe, hitting a cone in front of his head and tail. He will not follow the tank while he does it. Avoid this.

Slagna: Conjures pools of lava. Don't stand in them

Interrupt the summoned elementals' Firestorms

DPS the elementals down quickly. They have relatively low health pools.

Don't stand in the fire

Dispel debuffs as regularly as possible, particularly from melee and tanks as they spread.

Avoid standing in the two Smash abilities which have obvious smoke effects on the floor

Don't stand in the ground effects

Interrupt Ferocious Yell

Miners cannot be taunted, they need to be DPS'd down. Bringing them to melee can help.

Miners will try to attack targets the boss has leapt on.

There are friendly miners, but it's not obvious which they are. Don't worry too much about healing them, you don't need them to down the boss.

Look at Rolltall's end of the bridge to see where the rolling boulders will spawn. Avoid them while you can, they do a fair amount of damage and a 1-second stun

During his wind blast, you can cast while being blown along the bridge if you don't run into the wind.

Because of the wind blast, it's helpful to your healer if you try to stay grouped

He will summon fire, coating parts of the bridge until the fight ends. It is not possible to position this as it is not cast on players.

The fire does a lot of damage, try to dodge it during the wind blast.

The boulders will often fill the fire-free areas. Pick between the two, do not get hit by both! In alpha, the fire seemed to do more damage than the boulders, but the tooltips indicate the opposite is true.

This fight has a soft enrage as the bridge will become completely covered in fire.

Don't fall off the bridge!

Interrupt Molten Blast at every opportunity. Doing this effectively removes two high-damage abilities from the fight, making it far easier.

If interrupting fails, healers with an offensive dispel (priests, shaman), Mages and Prot Warriors can remove the buff.

The summoned elementals need to be DPS'd down before the reach the kilns their beams are leading to. Use roots, snares and stuns to ensure they are killed in time.

There will be an increasing amount of fire on the floor. Don't stand in it. Each pool will last for 2 minutes

Because of the elementals and the fire, it may be best, depending on your comp, for ranged DPS to deal with the elementals while melee focus the boss.

Ensure you remain in range of your healer wherever possible. It's easy to get very spread out in this fight.

Rare Spawns, Vignettes, Loot

Introduced in 5.4 on the Timeless Isle, Vignettes and rare spawns are making an increased appearance in Frostfire Ridge. Players can find a number of rare spawns with unique loot drops (marked by a skull on your minimap) as well as special treasure chests or events (marked by a sword).

As an additional twist, these rare spawns only sometimes show up as a silver elite. If you search for Vignettes under the Draenor > Frostfire Ridge section of our Warlords of Draenor quest database, you can get a sense of the types of rare spawns and events available.